Prime Minister Boris Johnson and members of the cupboard defended the program and said the verification capacity was expanding and that the average move to a verification center was not that far away.
We analyzed his claims.
The Secretary of Health did this in the House of Commons; last week he said the average distance was 6. 4 miles.
The challenge is that we have no way of saying whether that is the case, because the government does publish its knowledge of distances to Covid-19 control centers.
We have asked the Department of Health and Social Affairs (DHSC) several times. He says he plans to publish them “soon,” but that doesn’t mean much to evaluate Mr. Hancock now.
However, DHSC has us with limited data on its methodology.
He says the average distance refers to the “flight of birds”, so he does not take into account the fact that the maximum roads are on a direct line between someone’s space and the verification site. This means that the average distance traveled will be greater.
For example, if you had to drive between the BBC offices in central London and the Wembley check centre, the precise distance between the two is 8. 9 km; However, once real roads are accounted for, it increases to about 8 miles.
Last week, Hancock also said that “90% of others less than 35 kilometers away. “”Again, we haven’t noticed the knowledge about that. This would mean, however, that 10% have edited more.
In the past week, 199,000 regional test service tests were processed (this does not come with home or cellular testing), which up to 20,000 others in England have travelled more than 22 miles.
And the other wonderful thing we don’t know is how many other people register and don’t take a check, or how many people get a check and don’t take it.
As of 30 August, the UK had treated more than 15 million antigenic tests, indicating whether it has a coronavirus lately.
This is generally higher than in any other European country, according to the knowledge collected through the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), an EU agency.
Its figures show that on this date:
Cross-country comparisons will not be perfect as some countries report less occasionally and there may be differences in methodology.
Boris Johnson also said THE UK tests are more consistent with capital than France, Germany and Spain.
A review of this measure for differences in population length between countries.
Mr. Johnson is right, according to ECDC’s knowledge of the evidence of 1000 other people by the week ended August 30:
Knowledge also shows that 4 European countries rank above the UK, adding Denmark in 42 tests for every 1000.
The Minister of the Interior is right to say that the government’s knowledge shows that the capacity for analysis and laboratory is greater, particularly since the beginning of the pandemic.
However, there is a significant gap between the number of tests that laboratories can perform (“capacity”) and the number of tests performed.
For example, on 10 September, British laboratories would have treated 244,000 antigen tests, implying whether you have the virus lately, but you’ve treated 204,000, which means that, in theory, labs may have processed the effects of 40,000 more tests. .
Last week Sarah-Jane Marsh, director of the government’s checks and leads program in England, showed that there is a challenge with labs, offering “sincere apologies” to those who simply won’t accept a check.
“All of our verification sites have capacity, so they don’t seem to be crowded, our remedy lab is the critical point,” he said.
Data on lab arrears are not publicly available, however, on Tuesday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the arrears “are below one-day capacity. “This means it can reach 244,000.
He added that this was because a call was being prepared for young people to return to school and adults to return to work.
We asked the government why, in a formula with more laboratory capacity than real tests, there is a delay, but we have gained some answer.
The last review times in England that we have are for the week until September 2nd: the figure considers other people who get effects within 24 hours instead of the next day.
The figure Johnson appears to refer to is the proportion of check effects published within 24 hours of obtaining a laboratory: 89% in the week of August 26 and 92% in the week of September 2.
But this excludes the time it takes to take the check to the lab, and that’s for Pillar 1 checks, which are for others with clinical desires and are treated in Public Health England labs and NHS hospitals.
For Pillar 2 checks, those of the general population and controlled through personal laboratories, the median time between performing a verification at a regional verification site and obtaining the result is 23 hours, meaning that some of the checks took longer than that and part less. Time.
For cell verification units, the figure is 20 hours, but for satellite verification centers it is 83 hours.
Satellite checks are those that are processed through personal laboratories and sent to positions such as nursing homes or hospitals. The government says the checkup in those contexts takes place in several days, which means someone can take a check a few days early. is picked up.
Outside of permanent driving control sites, others may also receive control kits at their homes or cell control sites, which move on demand.
Ms. Patel is correct in saying that there has been a build-up in those two elements, doubling since the end of May.
It is difficult to verify whether additional evidence is taking place in containment spaces because, again, the government does not publish this knowledge through local authorities. We also don’t know how many other people asked for evidence, but they couldn’t get it when they did. searched for.
On 15 September, the Ministry of Health stated that 9,278 Pillar 2 tests – or for advertising – had been conducted in the 10 maximum regions of the country concerned, equivalent to approximately 7. 5% of all tests on an average day.
These 10 zones make up 5% of the population, which have gained proportionally more evidence.
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